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22-Mec-B6 Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Worked solutions to 13 past sittings (2013–2019), 89 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2019

  1. Question 1: Number of Stages for a Gas Turbine
  2. Question 2: Velocity Diagram for the Gas Turbine
  3. Question 3: Pump Performance
  4. Question 4: Hydro Turbine Design
  5. Question 5: Hydro Turbines
  6. Question 6: Gas Turbine Number of Stages
  7. Question 7: Turbine Blade Characteristics
  8. Question 8: Centrifugal Pumps

December 2018

  1. Question 1: Compressor Stage Performance
  2. Question 2: Compressor Blade Angles
  3. Question 3: Hydro Turbines
  4. Question 4: Francis Hydro Turbine
  5. Question 5: Curtis Type Impulse Turbine
  6. Question 6: Turbine and Compressor Stage Limitations
  7. Question 7: Fan Blade Shape
  8. Question 8: Hydro Turbine Operation

May 2018

  1. Question 1: Turbojet Compressor
  2. Question 2: Turbojet Engine
  3. Question 3: Steam Turbine Blade Efficiency
  4. Question 4: Pelton Wheel
  5. Question 5: Hydro Turbine
  6. Question 6: Compressor and Turbine Blade Shape
  7. Question 7: Compressor and Pump Characteristics
  8. Question 8: Fan Control

December 2017

  1. Question 1: Hydro Turbines
  2. Question 2: Hydro Turbine Model
  3. Question 3: Curtis Type Impulse Turbine
  4. Question 4: Pump Design
  5. Question 5: Compressor First Stage
  6. Question 6: Turbine Blade Characteristics
  7. Question 7: Gas Turbine Number of Stages
  8. Question 8: Pump Characteristics

May 2017

  1. Question 1: Compressor and Turbine
  2. Question 2: Compressor Design
  3. Question 3: Hydro Turbine Design
  4. Question 4: Multi-Jet Pelton Turbine
  5. Question 5: Boiler Draught Fans
  6. Question 6: Blade Design
  7. Question 7: Pump and Turbine Cavitation and Setting
  8. Question 8: Fan Control

December 2016

  1. Question 1: Convergent–divergent nozzle with a shock in the exit plane
  2. Question 2: The potential flow φ = −(A/2π) ln r
  3. Question 3: Head required to drive 10 L/s through a 30 m annulus
  4. Question 4: Rigid-body rotation of water in a spinning container
  5. Question 5: Dimensional analysis of the lift on a missile
  6. Question 6: Boundary layer in an accelerating suction wind tunnel

May 2016

  1. Question 1: Convergent–divergent nozzle between two reservoirs
  2. Question 2: Discharge pipe above a tank bed with a drain
  3. Question 3: Net force of the pipe on the fluid in a choked adiabatic duct
  4. Question 4: Vertical annulus with a shear-free outer wall
  5. Question 5: Buckingham Pi analysis of a sudden contraction
  6. Question 6: Laminar boundary layer in an accelerating wind tunnel

May 2015

  1. Question 1: Plane potential flow from a logarithmic velocity potential
  2. Question 2: Convergent–divergent nozzle between two reservoirs, with a mercury manometer
  3. Question 3: Net axial force on an insulated duct carrying choked adiabatic flow
  4. Question 4: Lubrication theory applied to a step (Rayleigh) bearing
  5. Question 5: Dimensional analysis of the lift force on a missile
  6. Question 6: Drag on a plate standing in a turbulent boundary layer

December 2014

  1. Question 1: Municipal outfall modelled as a source plus vortex above a lake bed
  2. Question 2: Blowdown of a pressurised air canister through a convergent–divergent valve
  3. Question 3: Gravity-driven laminar flow in a vertical annulus with one shear-free wall
  4. Question 4: Turbulent inlet region of a two-dimensional channel
  5. Question 5: Scaling a compressor stage by dimensional similarity

May 2014

  1. Question 1: Drag and Power for a Flat Plate Towed Edgewise
  2. Question 2: Pitot-Static Airspeed at Altitude and the Compressibility Error
  3. Question 3: Hydrogen Pipeline — Fanno-Flow Booster Spacing, Compressor Power and Cooler Duty
  4. Question 4: Full-Similarity Water-Tunnel Testing of a Suspension-Bridge Deck
  5. Question 5: Supersonic Duct with a Normal Shock — Reservoir, Throat and Minimum-Area Conditions
  6. Question 6: Fully Developed Annular Flow Driven by a Rod Pulled Through a Vertical Pipe
  7. Question 7: Source and Sink Above a Plane Wall — Method of Images

December 2013

  1. Question 1: Scaling a Fan — Flow, Pressure Rise and Shaft Power at a New Size, Speed and Air Density
  2. Question 2: Supersonic Nozzle Feeding an Insulated Pipe — Fanno Flow with a Shock at the Exit
  3. Question 3: Converging Nozzle Discharging Oxygen — Mass Flow at Three Back Pressures
  4. Question 4: Glycerol in a Rotating Beaker — Pressure on the Base and the Shape of the Free Surface
  5. Question 5: Municipal Discharge Pipe Modelled as a Source and Vortex above a Lake Bed
  6. Question 6: Thin Liquid Film Entrained by an Inclined Conveyor Belt
  7. Question 7: Supersonic Wind Tunnel with a Shock in the Test Section — Sizing the Second Throat

May 2013

  1. Question 1: Hydraulic Jump on a Spillway and its Froude-Scaled Model
  2. Question 2: Skin-Friction Drag and Power for a Super-Tanker
  3. Question 3: Pitot-Static Tube in a Supersonic Stream
  4. Question 4: Blowdown of an Insulated Air Tank through a Convergent–Divergent Valve
  5. Question 5: Potential-Flow Model of a Pool Recirculating System
  6. Question 6: Two Immiscible Liquids in a Pressure-Driven Two-Dimensional Channel

Undated paper

  1. Question 1: Convergent–divergent nozzle diagnosed from one manometer reading
  2. Question 2: Plane potential flow from a logarithmic velocity potential
  3. Question 3: Forces on the flange of a curved discharge pipe
  4. Question 4: Rigid-body rotation of a liquid — Navier–Stokes reduction and the free surface
  5. Question 5: Wind-tunnel testing of a submarine model — Reynolds similarity
  6. Question 6: Drag on a plate standing inside a turbulent boundary layer